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Lagos, Nigeria, October 31, 2014--Two journalists in Cameroon accused of withholding information from the state have been interrogated by a military court and ordered not to leave the country, according to news reports.

New York, October 30, 2014--The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns Tuesday's raid by Argentine police on the offices of La Brújula 24, a radio station and news website, in which the outlet's journalistic materials were confiscated.

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Liberian police on August 11, 2014, assaulted Henry Karmo, a journalist with the independent FrontPageAfrica newspaper, while he was photographing protesters in the capital, Monrovia, demonstrating against the imposition of a 90-day state of emergency by President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, according to news reports. The directive was aimed at controlling the spread of the deadly ebola virus, the reports said.

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New York, August 8, 2014--The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Azerbaijani authorities to stop harassing the Baku-based media freedom group Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety. Detectives with Azerbaijan's Prosecutor General's Office raided the IRFS premises today, the local press reported. A journalist who was at the raid told CPJ that the detectives confiscated some of their equipment, including computers. The whereabouts of IRFS's director, Emin Huseynov, are unknown, the local press said. Two days ago, authorities stopped Huseynov from exiting Azerbaijan when he tried to travel to Turkey for medical treatment, according to the local news website Contact.

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New York, June 27, 2014--The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns continued pressure on the media in the eastern Ukraine region of Donetsk and calls on separatists to allow journalists to report the news without fear of reprisal.

Coverage of street demonstrations is an exceptionally dangerous assignment, with journalists subject to assaults, obstruction, detention, raids, threats, censorship orders, and confiscation or destruction of equipment. This report is one in a series of three by Getty photographers who documented for CPJ their recent experiences covering protests and shared their photographs.

New
York, March 13, 2014--Journalists covering the ongoing crisis in the southern
Ukrainian autonomous republic of Crimea continue to be
detained, harassed, and obstructed, according to news reports. The
Committee to Protect Journalists calls on all sides of the crisis to allow journalists
to report freely on the events in Crimea and Ukraine.

New
York, March 11, 2014--Two reporters were detained by armed men in the autonomous
republic of Crimea, in southern Ukraine, while other journalists have reported
being assaulted covering the crisis and their equipment damaged or seized,
according to news reports. More than a dozen broadcasters have also been
censored, the reports said.

New
York, February 20, 2014--The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the wave
of violence against and harassment and detentions of journalists covering
protests in Venezuela in recent days and calls on authorities to ensure the
press can work safely. The violations come amid nationwide protests that have
left at least six
dead and hundreds injured. The demonstrations began on February 12 by university
students protesting the government of President Nicolás Maduro.